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UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

Faculty of Management, Economics and Social Sciences

Attitudes toward Education and Educational Success

Judith Offerhaus, WiSo-Fakultät

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Dr. Judith Offerhaus, Institute for Sociology and Social Psychology (ISS), will lead a research project on "Attitudes toward Education and Educational Success", funded by the DFG German Research Foundation as part of the Priority Programme SPP 1646' Education as a Lifelong Process', starting in April 2018.

According to Offerhaus, a vast body of empirical literature confirms the considerably strong association between social origin and educational success. Yet, little is known about attitudes towards education and their relevance in this process.

Thus, the project aims to test different theoretically driven assumptions about the attitude-education relationship: Is there a direct attitude effect on educational success? Are attitudes towards education mediating the relationship of social origin and educational success? Does the attitude-education relationship depend on social origin, meaning do attitudes have stronger effects for children of advantaged families or for children of lower social origin?

Further information about the project can be found on the ISS website.

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